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2015 is the 70th anniversary year of the end of the Second World War. The consequences for the monarchies of the world from this conflict were extensive and far-reaching. As such, 2015 is "World War II Theme Year" here at The Mad Monarchist with articles each month focusing on the monarchies of particular regions throughout the world during World War II. All such articles will be listed on this page, this year, as they are posted.

In north Africa, at Gazala, the German XV Brigade was in danger of being wiped out by the British when nearby Italian forces, acting without orders, saw their situation and came to the rescue, saving them from imminent defeat. I would love to find out more about this part if you could let me know a index or site that talks about this, I would be great.

Approximately 50 years after the Colección General de Documentos Relativos a las Islas Filipinas was published, Benito Arias Montano suggested that native Peruvians were descendants of the Ophir tribes. He believed that the Yucatan province shared a name with the father of Ophir, Ioktan. Supporters of the Pre-Columbian connections between Eurasia and South America dispute the notion of Peru in favour of Brazil.

All of these suggestions really stem from personal beliefs of the author(s) in question. There are few hard facts to validate any claim. One of the few facts revealed in the pages of the Bible was that every voyage to find Ophir began in the same place: the Red Sea port of Ezion Gebar. It wasn’t only gold that came to Israel from Ophir. There were accounts and records of peacocks, apes, spices and sandalwood as well.